CVE detail

CVE-2019-12402 — CVE-2019-12402

Published 2019-08-30 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor apache · Product commons_compress · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.5

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.1616

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

97.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

The file name encoding algorithm used internally in Apache Commons Compress 1.15 to 1.18 can get into an infinite loop when faced with specially crafted inputs. This can lead to a denial of service attack if an attacker can choose the file names inside of an archive created by Compress.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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